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A man enters the basement of a residential apartment building in Fengtai district on the Third Ring Road at around 6pm. More than 1 Nike Air Vapormax Womens ,000 people live in basement rooms in this neighborhood. [Photoqq] A man squats in the hall of a basement as he makes a phone call. The basement is divided into 117 rooms with rent ranging from 200 yuan ($32) to 800 yuan ($129). [Photoqq] Lin Pengsong sits on his bed to take off his socks in his basement room in Fengtai district. Lin is a telemarketer with a salary of 2,500 yuan ($402) per month. [Photoqq] Notices on the wall of a duty room reading “no noise” and providing information about services for basement-dwellers, reflect residents' lives. [Photoqq] A notice, requesting that the person who took clothes by mistake return them, hangs on a wall near other clothes. [Photoqq] Sneakers are put on stairs Nike Air Vapormax , where ventilation is better, to dry. [Photoqq] A notice asking residents to pay their rent is posted outside the duty room as the end of a month comes round. [Photoqq] Clothes belonging to residents hang in the hall of a basement. [Photoqq] Lin Pengsong walks to his basement room in Fengtai district in Beijing at around 8pm. [Photoqq] Clothes and other personal belongings fill the hall of a basement. [Photoqq] A piece of paper with words of love written to a girlfriend remains on the wall of a room after its owner moved out. [Photoqq] A room is left empty after its tenant moved away when the electricity was cut off. [Photoqq]
CAIRO, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- An Egyptian court delivered its final verdict Saturday ordering the imprisonment for three years of the Al-Jazeera journalists who were arrested in 2013 and accused of "aiding a terrorist organization."
The journalists included Australian Peter Greste, Egyptian-Canadian Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Egyptian producer Baher Mohamed, who work for Qatar-based Al-Jazeera English TV.
Fahmy and Mohammed were in cage of the Cairo Criminal Court Air Vapormax Shoes , but Greste was tried in absentia as he was deported to Australia earlier this year.
Mohamed also received an additional six-month jail sentence on a separate charge involving possession of weapons.
Another three other Egyptian defendants were also sentenced to three years in prison for helping the al-Jazeera journalists.
The court acquitted two other defendants.
Fahmy and Mohamed were on bail ahead of the verdict after spending more than 400 days in detention.
On Feb. 3, Fahmy renounced his Egyptian citizenship and kept the Canadian one, paving the way for his deportation.
The journalists were arrested in a security raid in a Cairo hotel room where they were operating in December 2013.
They were then accused of spreading false news and lies that harmed the national interests.
Greste and Fahmy were originally sentenced in last June to seven years, while Mohammed received a ten-year imprisonment term over charges of aiding the currently blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood.
The Court of Cassation, the country's top appealing court Air Vapormax Flyknit , accepted an appeal against the sentence on Jan. 1, saying the initial trial failed to prove their links to the Muslim Brotherhood.
BEIJING, July 2 (Xinhua) -- China relaunched its human rights protection website on Thursday, in both Chinese and English.
As the only authoritative website on the issue, it demonstrates progress in China's human rights protection Air Vapormax Kids , features international research on human rights, and promotes enhanced awareness among society.
It is the third time that the website, www.humanrights, is updated since it was launched in August 1998.
The new version features sections such as dynamic news, focus Air Vapormax Mens , publications and resources, and UN human rights.
The website is also a comprehensive database offering insight into human rights in China.
An official WeChat account is also put into operation. WeChat is a popular instant messaging application in China.
LOS ANGELES, July 20 (Xinhua) -- Former American football star O.J. Simpson was granted parole Thursday after serving nearly 9 years in prison in Nevada for a Las Vegas armed robbery and kidnapping conviction about a decade ago.
Simpson, who turned 70 this month, could be out of jail as early as October 1. A Nevada parole board voted 4-0 to grant Simpson parole Air Vapormax Womens , after a roughly 90-minute hearing in which Simpson testified that he had been a model prisoner and he has no interest in returning to the media spotlight.
"I've spent nine years making no excuses about anything," Simpson said. He also repeatedly apologized for his role in the crime. "I am sorry that things turned out the way they did. I had no intent to commit a crime," he said.
The ex-NFL star has tangled with the legal system over the last three decades, most famously in 1995 when he was acquitted of charges that he murdered his 35-year-old ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her 25-year-old friend, Ron Goldman.
His robbery conviction in 2008 was for his attempt at the Palace Station Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas to take photographs and other items from two sports memorabilia dealers by using guns Air Vapormax , threats and force.
Following his conviction for the botched attempt to take sports memorabilia he claimed belonged to him in the first place, Simpson was locked up in Lovelock, Nevada, in 2008 and was sentenced to 33 years behind bars, with a minimum of nine years without parole.